ever pronounce a word wrong for a long time

Surely, I thought Tie-rek until I heard Celestia mention Tee-rek. Like T.Rex. Without the s.

And also, Mala-KITE?

Splarf.

Splarf again!

What is splarf and why do you keep saying it

Pronunciation, funnily enough.

My mother pronounces "coyote" as if the final "e" were silent. She sometimes does the same thing with "recipe." Drives me nuts...

"Bump" is a word invented by Shakespeare, so I made up the word Splarf to take its place.

I don't think it's necessary to keep bumping a thread that doesn't go off the first page very often.

This is a slow thread, deal with it. I can understand bumping a thread that hasn't had a post in months and might have been forgotten about, but this is the kind of thread that people visit through their list of watched threads.

Just writing "bump" (or "splarf" as you prefer) would be considered a contentless meta-post, which is against the forum rules.

Might I suggest that, if you insist on bumping the thread, you include some relevant content in your post?

edited 30th Apr '16 8:11:57 PM by pwiegle

Oh. By the way, I thought hentai was pronounced Hen-Tay, and it rhymed with Entei, so I thought I would be seeing Entei-related pictures, until I saw a naked girl with bright blue hair and matching carpet. It turns out, then, I learned henTAI was about naked people. Or, as I moved on in life, naughty tentacles.

There's also the fact that I emphasized the "pom" in Coco Pommel's name when it turns out, ponies would emphasize the "mel" in her name, as she's named after Coco Chanel.

There's also Po-PIE-rus and Kerra (Papyrus and Chara) to consider.

edited 2nd May '16 5:05:23 AM by MoreFace

Anathema. Having only seen the word written for most of my life, it came as a small surprise to hear it pronounced with the stress on the first syllable, not the third.

edited 2nd May '16 6:20:26 AM by Lemurian

Really? I always stressed the second syllable, like so:

Huh, I see. I must have misheard the guy in the documentary I was watching, then.

Apparently "Trost" from Attack on Titan is not pronounced trahst. It's pronounced trohst. Like "toast".

"Quixote" (as in Don) is apparently pronounced "key-hote-ie". This has the unfortunate side-effect of making the full name sound like Donky Hotey, like some crappy parody of old cartoons.

That one is really complicated actually. Let me see if I can explain.

Don Quixote /ˌdɒŋ ˈkwɪksət/

don Quijote (spanish)[doŋ kiˈʃote]

And I forget the french one, but I think it goes roughly: Don Quichotte

edited 26th May '16 7:48:04 PM by war877

Donkey Hodie was one of the puppet characters on Mister Rogers' Neighborhood.

But the adjective "Quixotic" is pronounced "kwix-OTT-ick" (at least in English.)

edited 26th May '16 7:54:47 PM by pwiegle

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1. I also made the "PAWM-ul" instead of "pum-EL" mistake... many times... after having seen the episode... and after she became my favorite character on the show...

2. "puh-PIE-rus" is how you pronounce the name of the parchment that the font name is ultimately derived from, and "Chara" is short for "character" so "CARE-a" is probably most accurate.

I always thought Stephen Colbert's last name was pronounced Coal-bert. It's pronounced Coal-bear.

You're a Brony?

Also, Coco is no longer Coco. Her name is now Miss. Damn Copyright Scoundrels!!

I'm not as die-hard a fan as I used to be—I fell off the wagon about midway through Season 4, which is ironically the one that introduced my favorite character—but I still do keep up with it. Mostly just for Coco (which is still implicitly her name so who cares about the Miss Pommel thing, really?).

I used to pronounce "macabre" as "mac-ka-bray" instead of "mah-carb".

I'm sure I have pronounced many other words wrong for a long time - I do that a lot - but that's the one I remember.

This is what happens any time I try to speak Spanish. 80% of what comes out of my mouth is wrong, even after my Spanish teacher has corrected me for the 4,857th time as to the proper pronunciation.

I always used to say 'Mah-kah-bruh'.

I also say 'Pah-mer-ZAN' (as in, the cheese), with the emphasis on the last vowel. I'm not sure if that's just a regional thing or if it's considered 'universally' correct to say 'Pah-mer-zhawn'.